Beachwood Parkway crash hospitalizes two

BEACHWOOD – Two people were hospitalized Sunday after a car crashed into a tree off the Garden State Parkway, State Police said.

Two adults — whose identities have not been released — were injured when the car they were in swerved out of the northbound lanes at mile marker 79.7 at 8:21 a.m. and crashed into a tree in the median, Trooper Matt Magrone said. The driver was trapped in the vehicle and had to be freed with help from the Beachwood and Toms River Fire Departments, he said.

Both people were taken by ambulance to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune for treatment, Magrone said. Their conditions were not immediately available.